CVE-2025-39764

CVE-2025-39764

Medium · published September 11, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

netfilter: ctnetlink: remove refcounting in expectation dumpers

Same pattern as previous patch: do not keep the expectation object

alive via refcount, only store a cookie value and then use that

as the skip hint for dump resumption.

AFAICS this has the same issue as the one resolved in the conntrack

dumper, when we do

if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&exp->use))

to increment the refcount, there is a chance that exp == last, which

causes a double-increment of the refcount and subsequent memory leak.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00173 · 6.4th percentile
Published
2025-09-11T21:15Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 2.6.23, < 6.16.26.16.2
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (10)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 SEP 16:52Z
    netfilter: ctnetlink: remove refcounting in expectation dumpers
    cvelistv5